Bulletin-board



(No Model.)

' G- H. T ESSY.

BULLETIN BOARD.

PatentedMay 29,1883) WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. TESSY, OF LEADVILLE, COLORADO.

BULLETIN-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 278,630, dated May 29, 188 Application filed Febrnarym, 1883. (No model.) i

bulletin-boards,as-hereinafter described, and

pointed out in the claim, making a simple, attractive, and cheap device on which advertising matter may be written or sketched with colored chalk -oranything that can be readily removed. with a damp sponge, and that can be used either day or night, and maybe readily folded up and putaway when not required for use, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichsimilar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved bulletin-board. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken onthe line a: a: of Fig. 2.

I make two light rectangular frames, of wood or other bars, a, b, and c, hinge them together at d, and provide a bottom board, e, to rest on the bars I) and be fastened to bars a by hooks and eyes f or other equivalent means. I cover the sides and ends (if desired) of this device Evith cloth g, coated with gum-shellac, white ammarvarnish,or othertransparentmaterial, making the cloth translucent and enabling the signs written upon. the cloth with colored chalk or the like or placed before it to be i1 laminated, so as to be seen byv night when a candle, lt,or otherlight is placed inside. Strips j, containing. letters painted on glass or other transparent medium, or having stenciled letters, may be tacked on the bars a,.ii' desired.

It will be seen that a very efficient illuminated bulletin-board maybe cheaply provided iu'this manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,.and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of jointed frames a b a, de tachable bottom board, 0, and translucentlyprepared cloth cover g, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

CHARLES H. TESSY.

-Wituesses: t i

J. B. HAHN, BURTON WESTOVER. 

